On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:17:38 -0600 From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [brlug-general] And so, the War for the Desktop begins ...
John Hebert wrote: The forces of Good in Middle-Earth have allied together on the battlefield where they once strove to destroy one another. Led by they young Prince Linus Torvalds of OSDL, they now fight under the banner of Tux the Mighty to combat the Powers of Darkness led by the evil WitchKing William Gates of Redmond. Armed by the magical power of the GPL given to us from on high by the Prophet Richard Stallman, we will carry the fight to the enemy. The battle will be long, hard, and bloody. But in the end, we will prevail, and once again, we will be free! Well said good Sir Knight. But, shouldn't that have been Warlock King? A male witch is a Warlock, LOL! In addition: Henry V Act 4 Scene3 "If we are mark'd to die, we are enow to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; it yearns me not if men my garments wear; such outward things dwell not in my desires. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England. God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour as one man more methinks would share from me for the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart; his passport shall be made, and crowns for convoy put into his purse; we would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, and rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, and say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, and say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but he'll remember, with advantages, what feats he did that day. Then shall our names, familiar in his mouth as household words - Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester - be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red. This story shall the good man teach his son; and Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition; and gentlemen in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. Respectfully submitted. Cap'n Buck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20031126/0dcfa33b/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 26 11:04:49 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richards Jr, Edward C.) Date: Wed Nov 26 11:02:24 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Old Laptop Install Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: John Hebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Old Laptop Install Would the fact that Linux is installed with another CPU cause any problems? What about the driver install stage that Debian does? For instance, I would think that sound wouldn't work on the laptop. That means that the sound card drivers would have to be reinstalled and configured. I can't speak for other Debian based distros, but I know for a fact that you can do it with little to no changes with Xandros. I have several times replaced the mother board (did it last evening on one of my desktop systems) or moved a hard drive from one machine to the other and the only thing that I have had to do was to reset the desktop to extend across both monitors and change the display resolutions from 1024 X 768 to 1280 X 1024. Other than that, everything was there just like before. The 1st time I booted up took a bit longer than normal, but the OS told me that it had found new hardware and was reconfiguring the OS. Pretty polite and pretty smart too eh? But then we all know how difficult it is to install a fully functional Linux system....YEAH RIIIIIGHT! Ed Richards This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure of included information by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you are not a named recipient or authorized to receive and / or act on information sent to a named recipient, or have reason to believe you are not or should not be one of the named recipients, please notify sender accordingly by reply email and delete all copies of this message prior to forwarding, copying or otherwise reproducing this message or attachments thereto. For information regarding the export control status of items discussed in this document, please refer to the project control list. Thank you.
